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17 Ways You're Drinking Your Tea Wrong

Spoiler alert: Milk first, tea second.

Oh?

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How to Design a Simple Life

You don’t need to minimize yourself right out of a life. Design the life you want to live, no more and no less.

What does this bring to my life?

What would my life be like without this?

Why do I have this in my life?

Does this — this item, this event, this appointment, this routine, this schedule, this plan — does this move me toward the life I want to live, or away from it?

Does it add value or beauty to my days?

Am I investing my resources where it matters most?

Are there areas where I’ve let someone else’s priorities take over my time and energy?

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8 Little Things Deeply Connected Couples Do Regularly

They ask the same questions they did when they were first getting to know one another.

3!!!

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Life Is Better When It’s A Little Uncertain

Comfort can be the greatest Achilles Heel.

Life does not exist without uncertainty.

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How Lizzie Borden Was Punished Despite Her Acquittal

Aug. 4, 1892: The Bordens are murdered by ax in their Massachusetts home; their daughter Lizzie is accused of the killings

Condemned but not convicted.

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Sada Abe was a Japanese woman who is remembered for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag.

Whoa...

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16 Signs You’re What’s Known As A ‘Binge Thinker’

You have a fascination with creepy, dark or bizarre things.

Bang!

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So many of us live with this resignation to the idea that work is just some dreadful, time-consuming activity that we have to slog through five days a week in order to be able to live the rest of t…

The more we try, the more we keep reaching further towards what we want, the more we’ll end up encountering — and maybe falling in love with.

Why not look around for something that makes your days feel like something worth getting up for in the morning? To avoid falling down the slippery slope of haterdom, best to at least take your own shot at the kind of life you want to be living.